​Seems Like Only Yesterday

Seems Like Only Yesterday

By Paul McCann

As he lay in bed with a syringe driver feeding the tube that went into his vein, he started to think about moments in his life that were special . He had always been aware of the presence of his children even though they had been an absence in recent years and though he had not seen them for a long time , he remembered how it was when they were little ones and the fun they had , making up stories and going for walks together . He remembered every little detail about those times .

In his world now no one could see the things he did .

Every day he had strange and paranormal things going on but he couldn’t tell anyone about them as he was so lethargic because of all the medication .

He was in palliative care now at an  old folk’s home .

He had lots of visitors every day like the nurses and doctors and also everyday his  Mother and Father would visit him , even though they had passed away many years ago , they still came to visit him .It only seemed like yesterday when he himself was a little boy , lying back in his Mother’s arms .

He still recalled her sweet voice singing him to sleep and he could feel her kiss on his cheeks . He often remembered the stories his father had told him as a child and those same stories he had told to his own children .

His own children had their own lives and were too busy to visit him now but he still remembered when they were little children and it seemed like only yesterday when he took them to places where they swam in the sea and they laughed as then ran through the spring flowers , He saw vision as well everyday . It was just like he was  watching a movie on television ,

Sometimes other little children  would come into his room and visit him as well as some cats and dogs .

Some of the other things he saw were difficult for him to understand and he couldn’t tell anyone about them . If you believed in magic maybe then you would understand what he saw .

Sometime he was floating subconsciously in a state between two worlds , in an ocean of clouds where people came on strange ships reaching  out to him and just as they almost had him he was always pulled back into his bed by the doctors and nurses in his room there in the old folks home ..

His days where filled with wonder just like when he was a child . It seemed like yesterday when he was running through the early morning mists chasing a football on fields of gravel with all his team mates who were the best friends he ever had .

He remembers how they all walked to school together and the times they went to the beach and played football on the sand . He had no control of what he would see or when the visions would come but that was the wonder of it all .

He loved the visits from his parents who would tell him stories about a wonderful world that they had found and how they were always busy  gathering in the  crops at harvest time and where fruit filled the trees that grew on the greenest grass around lakes where the water sparkled in the golden sun in the sky .

There was a day when he was visited by many of his ancestors from the past as well as from his generations to come . His own life had attachments to all of those people .

He seen a glimpse of he lives they had . Some where King’s in castles and other were beggars on the street . Then came the day when he saw himself drifting away from his bed and as he looked down at himself lying on the bed , he was visited by his own children . It was just like yesterday , they still looked just the same as he remembered .

They tried to reach out to him but he was already in the arms of his mother who was singing to him again as he feel into a deep sleep and in a dream he was sailing away through the sky to place where a light shone so bright and a voice called out ,

“ .Hello child of the universe I have been awaiting your visit . It only seems like yesterday since you’ve been gone .Welcome home “

 The End